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Bach Ariza, Àlex
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ICREA Research Professor at IRTA (Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries). Life & Medical Sciences
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Alex Bach obtained his title on veterinary medicine at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in1994. Later, he pursued a Master (1996) and a PhD in Animal Science (1999) at the University of Minnesota. He was the recipient of the John Brandt Memorial Foundation scholarship for the academic year 1998-1999. He was awarded the prize to the Best Young Researcher in Animal Nutrition by the Fundación Española para el Desarrollo de la Nutrición Animal (FEDNA) in 1998. Also, in 1998 Alex received the award to the Outstanding PhD Student of the Department of Animal Science of the University of Minnesota. In 1999, Alex was awarded the prize to the best PhD student in Animal Sciences (ruminant branch) by the American Association of Animal Science. Alex is the author or coauthor of several books and has more than 60 peer-reviewed publications.
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Research Interests
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Alex Bach conducts research in ruminant production systems. His research focuses on optimizing the growth curve of dairy replacement heifers, as well as their management and housing systems (group size, behavior, stocking densities...).
Alex also uses mathematical models to simulate work flows of ruminant production systems with the aim of helping the decision-making process in dairy enterprises.
In addition, Alex conducts basic research to understand the physiology and metabolism of ruminants with especial emphasis on the impact of nutrition and management during early development on future metabolic function.
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KeyWords
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ruminants, nutrition, metabolism, intake, model, heifer
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